Liverpool, NS-based Aqualitas is on track to be the third licensed producer of medical cannabis in Nova Scotia after receiving Health Canada’s approval to cultivate the crop.

The new licence is in line with Health Canada’s Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations. Currently, there are 89 Health Canada approved producers of cannabis across Canada, 48 of which are in Ontario. Aqualitas

Solace Power Inc. has released the latest version of its wireless recharging technology, creating a “workhorse” product that customers can install easily.

Based in Mount Pearl, NL, Solace launched Equus35, the first in a family of complete wireless charging solutions, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this month. The new product delivers 35 watts of power across gaps of more

An opening at Outshine, an online marketing company in Halifax, is featured in our Jobs of the Week column today. 

The company is looking to hire a marketing consultant to guide Outshine’s advertising practices, while reporting directly to the company’s president.

Outshine uses digital advertising, data science and analytics to serve its clients in the B2B space. Its work primarily aids

Jake Arsenault and Lori Clair wanted to solve a relevant problem. So, for 18 months, they considered options before creating The Black Arcs, a company that is developing an online tool for exploring the inter-relatedness of land use issues.

Designed for consultants, city planners and anyone with an interest in the core issues impacting their town, the simulator is modelled on a video game to

Students from three provinces are competing for more than $19,000 in cash and prizes in a business plan contest at University of New Brunswick’s Fredericton campus.

UNB’s International Business and Entrepreneurship Centre is hosting the BMO Financial Group Apex Business Plan Competition at the Wu Conference Centre. The three-day event wraps up today.

Eighteen teams from New Brunswick, Nova

A year after exiting his security company , Ron Lovett is giving back to the Atlantic Canadian entrepreneurial community.

Lovett, who sold Source Security and Investigations in late 2016, has founded an accelerator for entrepreneurs under the auspices of the Atlantic Canadian chapter of the Atlantic Canadian Chapter of the Entrepreneurs' Organization. 

The EO is a global network of 12,000

Six entrepreneurs captured first-place prizes at the 18th annual Halifax Business Awards at the newly opened Halifax Convention Centre on Thursday night.

The sold-out event, hosted by the Halifax Chamber of Commerce, featured 30 finalists, who were recognized for their achievements and impact on the business community.

“We’re recognizing the new, the innovative, the exporters, the big, the

A year after coming up with the idea of using blockchain to battle outrageous ticket prices, Conor Daly and Kyle Gardiner are well on their way to having a basic product to sell to ticketing agencies.

The two Halifax-based founders of UpFront Tickets have graduated from the Propel ICT Launch accelerator and are now preparing to market their technology. They are about two-thirds of the way to

Dartmouth-based Metamaterial Technologies Inc, a smart materials and photonics company, has signed a three-year business development and technology partnership with U.K.-based Artemis Optical to develop a hybrid coating for the defence industry.

Metamaterials is developing various technologies that influence light.  In a partnership with Airbus, it is testing a product that protects cockpit

Customers of SimplyCast can now promote and sell the company's many services to their clients with the help of the new SimplyCast Agent Program. 

Dartmouth-based SimplyCast, a communication automation company known for its customer-flow application SimplyCast360, launched its new Agent Program on Tuesday.

The program allows individuals or businesses to offer SimplyCast-branded services to their